The
All Progressives Congress said on Thursday that the Independent
National Electoral Commission deceived it by using different voters’
register for the Saturday’s governorship election in Anambra State,
which it said was completely different from the ones it submitted to the
party before the poll.
The Interim National Chairman of the party, Chief Bisi Akande, who stated this at a press briefing in Abuja, said at the appropriate time, the commission would be forced to produce the register it used for the conduct of the controversial election.
Akande added that the party had formally petitioned the Chairman of INEC, Prof. Attahiru Jega seeking the cancellation of the election and the organisation of a fresh election, instead of the supplementary election being planned by the electoral body.
The former governor of Osun State said, “We don’t have the voters’ register used for the election. We saw the first voters’ register and the second one, but the third one, which was used for the election, was not giving to us. It was an orchestrated plan to disfranchise the people of Anambra State.”
With this, Akande said the electoral body could not no longer conduct a credible, adding that it had shown its bias against the opposition political party in several ways.
He said it was not known to the defunct three political parties -Action Congress of Nigeria, Congress for Progressive Change and the All Nigeria Peoples Party- that while they were trying to merge to form the APC, the commission was also merging with the Peoples Democratic Party and the Presidential Villa.
The Interim National Chairman of the party, Chief Bisi Akande, who stated this at a press briefing in Abuja, said at the appropriate time, the commission would be forced to produce the register it used for the conduct of the controversial election.
Akande added that the party had formally petitioned the Chairman of INEC, Prof. Attahiru Jega seeking the cancellation of the election and the organisation of a fresh election, instead of the supplementary election being planned by the electoral body.
The former governor of Osun State said, “We don’t have the voters’ register used for the election. We saw the first voters’ register and the second one, but the third one, which was used for the election, was not giving to us. It was an orchestrated plan to disfranchise the people of Anambra State.”
With this, Akande said the electoral body could not no longer conduct a credible, adding that it had shown its bias against the opposition political party in several ways.
He said it was not known to the defunct three political parties -Action Congress of Nigeria, Congress for Progressive Change and the All Nigeria Peoples Party- that while they were trying to merge to form the APC, the commission was also merging with the Peoples Democratic Party and the Presidential Villa.
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